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by s_q_b 11y ago
I would not bet that West African technology in the Middle Ages was leagues ahead of West African technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_Empire Viking ships weren't that advanced. What they could do was na
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Many names in Romance language preserve the ending of original declension from the Latin. The first declension feminine ending, the "base" name for a woman's name, is "a." Thus many Romance countries (and Christian
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It does not surprise me that introduction of small particulates to any orifice on a daily basis would increase cancer risk. Household dust increases cancer risk. The cover up orchestrated by Johnson&Johnson here, however, is the deplora
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Israel's unknown unknowns make it far more precarious. The wrong suicide strike at the wrong religious site... and 190 million Arab Muslims are now faced off against a: • nuclear-armed nation • populated largely by the survivors
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Far more importantly, strategically. But Japan has a fairly firm and stable political position compared to Israel. So it does not weigh on either side.
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Read Krysta Svore's work out of Micosoft Research's once you get beyond the basics, especially the one on quantum deep learning.
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Sure, but now you're just showcasing a different skill set that has high survival utility, namely cognitive ability. My hypothesis is that complex cognitive activities are one way humans measure fitness as a mate. Conspicuous consumpti
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by s_q_b 11y ago
I've often thought conspicuous consumption is largely just a message to the world of one's fitness as a mate. If so, sexual selection produces some very interesting and complex but functionally "useless" objects.
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by s_q_b 11y ago
The point of the throwaway remark was that there's pent-up demand for consumer goods due to the Recession. Similarly, traders are speculating global new vehicle sales to increase, as the average age of a car on the road far older than
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by s_q_b 11y ago
I remember him, and his goals. (Guy Fawkes may not have been the best example.)
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Most of the world recognizes the Guy Fawkes mask as the symbol of Anonymous now. In fact, I'd say the Nov. 5 plot immortalized his ideas and spread them far wider than their original audience and circumstance. I'd say the gunpowde
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My point was that Apple swings a big stick in this argument.
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Well, my tech-illiterate grandfather knows about this debate, and all he can understand is that the FBI has a terrorist's phone and Apple is obstructing their investigation. He thought encryption was something we could easily ban, and
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Apple has quarter trillion dollars of cash on hand. Without calculating interest or expected value, at 100k a day, Apple could hold out for over a millennium. I'm sure Apple has a legal army gaming out each one of these scenarios.
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Don't underestimate the pettiness of billionaires, and the lengths they will travel to embarrass one another. In fact, I can't think of a plausible reason for purchasing them and then putting them up for sale so quickly that doesn
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by s_q_b 11y ago
You do go to jail, usually just court house holding, for contempt of court. That doesn't mean your due process rights disappear. You can challenge the warrant and the applicability of the All Writs Act all the way to SCOTUS. You can ev
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Google mostly bought Boston Dynamics to annoy the Pentagon, right after the Snowden revelations broke. DARPA sees Boston Dynamics' research as key for future ground-drone combat. Guessing somebody made a deal to get them back.
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Dpkt is also a very good, although I've had some bugs with it on Mac. Probably just odd network issues.
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Tcpdump is cool, tshark is cool, but nothing beats raw libpcap for grabbing raw data off the wire. It is simply so stable at high throughput it's often the only option. Wireshark starts to break down at a certain point. When that happe
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by s_q_b 11y ago
MacBook Air. Top of the line in mid-2012. But anything remotely computationally intensive is either on my beast work laptop MacBook Pro or in a cloud-based cluster. It's pretty badass to type one shell script name that spins you up an
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The right exists.. It's called the "right to private corespondence. There was discussion about putting it into the first amendment, but it never happened.
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I tell people I work for Booz | Allen | Hamilton, and the vast vast majority outside the beltway don't recognize the name at all.
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Public announcement of these programs is good. It opens the door to Constitutional scrutiny. These actions were happening anyway. Aren't we better off now that they're acknowledged and can be challenged?
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Atty. Silverglate is very much not a fraud. He's the author of "The Shadow University" which was one of the most disruptive blows that's been struck against the large-endowment administrations in the past few decades. I
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More doors in, more doors out. Bad OPSEC.
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Their service here in Washington, D.C. is awful. I used to love Uber, evangelized it to friends, was even the first to show Sanju Bansal how it worked when we were at a gala. Everyone else was fumbling for their S-Class keys while our twin
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Their service here in Washington, D.C. is awful. I used to love Uber, evangelized it to friends, was even the first to show Sanju Bansal how it worked when we were at a gala. Everyone else was fumbling for their S-Class keys while our twin
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by s_q_b 11y ago
I personally turned down a second round interview at Uber over their, based upon information and belief, failure to adhere to the Americans with Disabilities Act. After hearing the stories of a handicapped friend, who happened to be attendi
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Unexhaustively: snow melt, fighting season, lack of maintenance.
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A couple days ago, dinner conversation.

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